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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 60 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 27. 1947 (Monday)
Jackson County Civic Music
associations will open the 1947
season Feb. 5, by presenting the
National Male Quartet
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Next Sun
day is Ground Hog Day. Many
hope the gentleman does not
see his shadow and others don't
care.
20 YEARS AGO
Ian. 27. 1937 (Wednesday)
Minimum of $2,400 is set as
Jackson county's flood relief
quota by national Red Cross
headquarters.
Cooperation with the Klamath
Falls post of the American Le
gion in a forest fire prevention
program is decided by local le
gionnaires. 30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 27. 1927 (Thursday)
Judge W. J. Hartzell will pre
side at the Boy Scout of honor
to be held tonight when Ron
ald Kring will be presented
with an Eagle badge.
Crater Lake National park
will undergo this year its most
extensive improvement pro
gram, according to C. G. Thom
son, superintendent.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 27. 1917 (Saturday)
About 1.176 fires on the na
tional forests of Oregon, Wash
ington and Alaska burned over
9.000 acres of timber land in
1916, it is announced.
Arrangements for the absorp
tion of the Producers' Fruit
company of Oregon by the Earle
Fruit company of the Northwest
are completed.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or trn correct It nperlor: mt
en or eight Is excellent: five or
elx I fond
1. Was the grain drill, for
planting wheat, an American or
British invention?
2. Name Eugene Sue's imagi
nary parsonage whose existence
is based on the history of
Christ's passion.
3. What are the first seven
words of the Declaration of In
dependence? 4. To what question of Pilate
did Jesus reply "Thou sayest
if?
5. Are fresh fruits more im
portant as regulatory or protein
foods?
6. Was the "sage of Emporia"
an American, Greek, or Italian?
7. There are twelve major
planets known to revolve
around the sun; true or false?
8. Was Pradjadhipok the king
of Thailand (Siam) or Ancient
India?
9. What is the feminine of the
word comedian?
10. Who wrote "The winds
and waves are always on the
side of the ablest navigators."
Answers: 1. American. Patent
ed 1841. 2. "The Wandering
Jew." 3. "When in the course of
human events." 4. "Are thou the
kino of the Jews?" 5. Regula-
tery. 6. American (William Al
len White). 7. False. me. o.
Thailand. 9. Comedienne. 10.
Edward Gibbon.
A FINE FIX
Newark, N.J. (U.R) Sidney
Richman Friday drove down
' town to pay a S2 traffic ticket.
He double-parked when he
couldn't find a spot and rushed
into court to pay his fine. When
he returned he found a S5 ticket
parked under his windshield
wiper.
,
MAIL TRIBUNE
Credit To No One
Those OLCC hearings last week had a good many
aspects of a low-grade television mystery story. They
left unanswered more questions than they resolved.
For instance:
Did the money go for political campaign purposes
or didn't it? If so, to whom? And did or did not the
recipients know its origin?
Who are the two "unidentified" attorneys? And
why the solicitude for them and their prospective
"embarrassment"? Should attorneys, simply because
they are attorneys, be immune from questioning in a
matter of public interest? And why should other at
torneys in town be automatically subjects of com
munity suspicion, due to the fact that as long as the
two are unknown, all are suspect? If there was no
wrongdoing, why the reticence? '
""THERE are other questions, too.
The Oregon law which was allegedly violated in
this instance is in ORS 471.420. It says:
"No licensee under the liquor control act or any dealer
in, manufacturer or distiller of intoxicating liquor shall
make any contribution to any candidate for political office
or to any political party."
To the layman, this sounds specific and unequiv
ocal. And most of the accused tavern owners, on le
gal advice, admit making the contributions in ques
tion, most of them with an understanding of what
they were for. Yet, on legal advice, they plead inno
cent. In effect they are saying, on legal advice, "I did
what the law says is illegal. But I am innocent be
cause I didn't know what this law, which regulates
my licensed activities, said: and I didn't know how
the money was to be used,
was for a political campaign.
The question raised by
what it says? Or, through legal interpretation, does
it mean something else? Also isn't it true that ignor
ance of the law is no defense?
AND one more question:
" Was the OLCC examiner interested in examin
ing? Or was he content to let the attorneys for the
"defense" marshal the witnesses and ask the ques
tions? The public is entitled to answers to these ques
tions. The y are entitled to know if the law has been
broken, and if so by whom. They are entitled to know
what happened to these contributions. They are en
titled to know if the two "unidentified" attorneys
who are officers of the courts and as such are quasi
public officials acted in a manner befitting the
trusted profession of lawyer.
'17'HO will answer these questions?
Will it be the new liquor control commission,
which took office only the other day, in its report on
this case? .
Will it be the Bar association, which has assumed
the responsibility for maintaining the profession in
its position of trust and honor?
Will it be the Oregon Licensed Beverage Asso
ciation, which has worked so hard to change the
occupation of tavern keeper from one of odium into
one of respect?
The hearings, in themselves, reflected credit on
no one. If they result in a clearing of the air, and
hereafter an honest response to legitimate questions
before official investigators, however, they will have
been worth while. E.A.
Too Bad, But...
The Mail Tribune opposed the Hawthorne Park
"free-way" route when it was first proposed. t
We still do.
But the Highway Commission has selected it, so
we have to admit the goose is cooked, and those op
posed will have to make the best of it, which we
herewith will try to do.
OOWEVER to keep the record straight we would
A A like to note again our main reasons for opposition
to this selection.
No. I: It runs contrary to accepted modern prac
tice in state highway construction namely: that down
town and congested business districts should be
avoided, and a "freeway" should BE a FREE way
that is free as far as possible from urban and local
motor traffic.
No. 2 : It will impair the beauty and attractive
ness of Hawthorne park which has been a valuable
community asset and render any development of
Bear Creek, as the center of a new, improved and
comprehensive park and recreational system for Med
ford, unlikely if not impossible.
Although for over a third of a mile it will be an
"over pass" construction thus avoiding Jackson and
Main street crossings, such a construction will tend to
separate the city into two
dom ol acceess between them and creating (with the
"Friendly Southern Pacific") yet another artificial
barrier.
FINALLY No. 3: Routing the new "free-way"
I around the city instead of through it, either to the
East or West, WOULD have given the touring motor
ist an attractive instead of an unattractive view of
Medford, and instead of reducing the much publi
cized "tourist business" would, in our humble judg
ment have invited and increased it.
OOWEVER as indicated above, the State Highway
I I commission apparently decided to "follow the
election returns" in this case the results of their
hearings held in Medford and the pressures resulting
therefrom and as the Commission has the final au-
Sunday, January 27. 1957
even though I thought it
this is : Does the law mean
distinct areas, limiting free
Matter of Fact By jo aisop
SOVIET GRAND STRATEGY
Moscow It has been an as
tonishing experience, here in
Moscow-; to read the reports of
Seer etary of
State Dulles'
testimony on
the Eisenhow
er Doctrine for
the Middle
East. Such
hours have
been devoted
to the discus
sion of dangers
that hardly ex
ist. The very real dangers that
do exist have been so rapidly
glossed over.
The very violence of the So
viet reaction to the President's
new doctrine must of course
give a look of truth to the ad
ministration's warnings about
the possibility of Soviet armed
aggression in the Arab lands.
But in fact there is not the
slightest evidence here to sug
gest in any way that the Soviets
have any intention of using
their armed might in the Middle
East, either now or for years to
come.
Indeed, all the evidence indi
cates that the Soviet leaders
never had any real intention of
resorting to force at any time
during the Suez crisis, even at
the moment when Premier Bul
ganin sent his threatening note
to London and Paris and some
thing unpleasantly like panic
reigned in Washington. In truth,
the real reason for the intensity
of the Soviet reaction to the
Eisenhower Doctrine was frank
ly stated by a brilliant Soviet
expert on foreign affairs, who
is the only member of the local
hierarchy with whom this re
porter has yet been able to talk
at length.
"WE THINK," he said, "that
' this is a pretext for put
ting the buckle on the chain of
American bases which surround
the Soviet Union."
This does not mean, however,
that the Soviet program in the
Middle East will now be aban
doned. In a very long and quite
absorbing conversation about
the present and future world
balance of power, there was one
point on which the Soviet expert
quoted above was visibly sin
cere. The Soviets, he insisted,
would never be content to let
well enough (or bad enough)
alone in the Middle East or any
other troubled area on the West
ern side of the line that now di
vides the world.
In the same fashion, in Paris
after the first London confer
ence on Suez, Soviet Foreign
Minister Shepilov flatly told the
French leaders that his country
"could never under any circum
stances abandon its historic mis
sion" of assisting in the "libera
tion" of peoples seeking to
throw off the "colonial yoke."
Maybe the position would be
different if it were certain that
Soviet interventions on our side
of the line could lead to general
war, as it might have led to war
if the American government had
behaved about Hungary as the
Soviet government behaved
about Egypt. Maybe, indeed, the
intervention, in the Middle East
would never have been attempt
ed, if it had not been for the fa
mous Summit meeting held at
Geneva.
Editorial
Comment
HAWTHORNE ROUTE
Decisions this week of the
state highway commission to use
the so-called Hawthorne park
route for the construction of the
new section of U.S. 99 in the
Medford area settles the last
problem of location of the 2$
mile project which starts south
of Ashland and ends north of
Central Point.
The action by the highway
board means that Medford will
be the only city between Port
land and the Oregon line in
which the high-speed four lane
road will cut through the heart
of a community. In other cases
the cities and towns are being
by-passed. .
Here at Ashland, the route
will be above Bear creek. Rose
burg has already been by-passed
as has Salem.
One factor in the board's an
nounced decision seemed to be
that following the Hawthorne
park route would result in a
minimum loss of valuable land
such as orchard property and
homes. However, it would seem
to an outside observer that the
route selected for Medford may
have some distinct disadvan
tages for it will inevitably result
in a physical division of that
city wih the super-road cutting
through the center of the com
munity. We are inclined to be
lieve that if we resided in Med
ford, we would not be too haopy
about the choice. Ashland Tidings.
aWm'aJasI
Joseph Alsop
thority in such matters, there is nothing we can see
for the opposition to do buf'grin and bear it." How
ever If Medford grows in the next ten years as it has
in the past we hope it will and there are indications
such a hope is justified we believe the error of such
a selection will then be conceded by most of those
who today for various reasons so strongly support it.
: R.W.R.
TJERE in Moscow, this reporter
has certainly found plenty
of expert support for the opin
ion that President Eisenhower
and Sir Anthony Eden were all
uo successful at Geneva, in ex
plaining their remorseless dedi
cation to peace at any price. At
any rate, it must have been de
lightful for the Soviet leaders to
hear about this dedication just
when a wholly new Middle East
ern program was being tenta
tively weighed.
Thereafter, the old Far East
ern emphasis of Soviet policy
was at least temporarily aban
doned. The links were formed
with Egypt's President Nasser
and the other Arab nationalists.
The Middle Eastern program,
which essentially consists of en
couraging the Arabs to do w"hat
they want to do anyway, was
adroiUy launched.
The danger of the program
lies in the fact that vengeance
on the Western nations for the
wrongs real and imagined is the
immediate goal of Arab nation
alism. The link with the Soviets
in turn gives the Arab leaders
the self confidence to seek this
vengeance in ways that can well
prove fatal to the Western pow
ers and especially to Great Brit
ain. ' Yet thus encouraging the
Arabs to do what they want to
do costs the Soviets very little
and involves a minimum of risk.
SUCH is the major present
theme of Soviet grand strat
egy. One can only admire the
cool daring and astute calcula
tion of this strateev which gives
the Soviet leaders a good chance
of rather decisively upsetting
the world balance of power ai
such small cost to themselves,
nno cannot feel this strategy
will be successfully countered,
either, simply by telling tne So
viets they must not do the one
thing they do not mean to do.
Yet the words have been spok
en by the President. If they are
now taken back by congress,
tho aftor affects are likely to
make the Summit meeting ap
pear bv comparison, like one 01
the more hard headed episodes
of Bismarckian diplomacy.
Copyright 195
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
tt s Rudffet Director Perci
tal Rrunriacrp was testifying in
Washington before the appropria
tions committee of the house oi
representatives.
Thp tpietvne aaas:
"Members of the committee
are looking for places to CUT
the proposed n mmon auuai
federal budget."
TF THE members of the house
appropriations committee are
really serious in their desire to
cut the budget proposed recently
by the President, they might con
sult the report of tne noover
ccommission for government re
organization.
It will tell them how they can
cut 5V4 BILLION dollars a year
off the budget without impair
ing any basically necessary func
tion of the federal government
including national defense and
the basic social services.
The cut would come out of
what might be called the FLUFF
of federal spending including
what for decades has been known
as the "pork barrel."
A SAVING of 5V4 billion dol-
lars wouldn't be hay.
Assuming that our present
population is somewhere in the
neighborhood of 167,000,000,
each billion dollars the govern
ment spends costs you about $6,
If you are the breadwinner for
a family of four, each billion
spent by government costs you
in the neighborhood of $24.
So
If by careful and businesslike
economy the federal government
could cut its expenditures as
much as five and a half billion
dollars it would save you as an
individual some $33 a year. If
you are the breadwinner for a
family of four, it would save
you something like $132 a year.
If you are an average indi
vidual or an average breadwin
ner for a family of four, you
could probably use that amount
very nicely.
LET'S take a sharp look at this
business of government spend
ing. There's a lot of politics in it.
This is the politics of the situ
ation: At this particular moment in
history, the executive depart
ment of our government (headed
by the President) is in the hands
of the Republicans. The legis
lative department (the congress)
is controlled by the Democrats.
If the congress can put the bee
on the President (in this spend
ing controversy) the Democratic
chances of winning the Presiden
cy in 1960 will be improved (ac
cording to political reasoning).
If the President can put the bee
on congress, Republican chances
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Do You Remember?
To the Editor: Do you re
member when a chicken incu
bator was considered a miracle?
When we were told an apple a
day kept the doctor away?
When everyone wore "patent
leather" shoes? When rural
smokers puffed corncob pipes?
When banks had stacks of five,
ten and twenty dollar gold
pieces behind the cashier's cage
for exchanging of customers
checks or gold dust? When hard
ware stores sold gasoline to use
in gas manUe lamps? When he
men wore watch fobs and fancy
vests? When every school stu
dent possessed an autograph al
bum? When you were slighted
if you did not get a comic val
entine around February 14th?
When everyone drank some
sassafras tea every spring?
When everyone hoped the
groundhog would not see his
shadow on Feb. 2nd? "Seems
like all a dream now."
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman,
Medford, Ore.
He Didn't Live Long Enough"
To the Editor: My husband
died in November of 1955, after
a long and costly illness. His ill
ness and death, and the later
injury of my oldest son, took all
our savings and made my family
dependent on public support. It
has been a long and bitter strug
gle to keep going.
After my husband's death, I
found among his papers a book
let which showed that he, as a
member of a well-known frater
nal organization, was entitled
both to weekly financial assist
ance while sick, and to a small
death benefit. He had belonged
for five years.
I made a number of attempts
to obtain these payments to
which I felt entitled, but was put
off, for one reason or another,
with no satisfactory explanation
given to me. When I asked why,
I was told that my husband
"didn't live long enough" to be
entitled to death benefits. I was
also told they were "glad" I had
not asked for their services at
the funeral, because it would
have cost them "a half day's
wages."
What was done was done. It
has now been more than a year.
My reason for writing now is
the hope that by making this
known, some other person will
not be hurt and deprived in the
same way I was.
I admit I am bitter about it,
particularly when the leaders of
the organization make public
statements about the "good" they
do for their members and for
the community. But my reason
for telling this now is not for any
sort of "revenge," but as a warn
ing that things are not always
what they seem. If other mem
bers know of these things, per
haps they will be less likely to
happen in the future.
Mrs. Ben Blachly,
305 Effie st.,
Medford, Ore.
Today and
By Walter
THE SECOND INAUGURAL
The second inaugural is a
statement of the President's
ideals and of his hopes. It does
not contain
any definition
of the policies,
much less of
the programs,
which in his
mind could
best realize
his hopes and
ideals. The re-
c2ul suit is to give
Walter Llppmnn a impression
of unlimitedness, of a lack of
measure, of pledges and prom
ises beyond the bounds of what
is really possible, beyond the
bounds, in fact, of what he him
self actually intends to do and
of what Congress would actu
ally permit him to do.
Thus he affirmed with great
energy his opposition to isola
tionism, which in its ultimately
logical form is the conception of
fortress America. But was it not
going to the other extreme to
say that "we accept our own
deep involvement in the destiny
of men everywhere?" Can it
really be the policy of the United
States government to become
deeply involved in the destiny of
men everywhere? In the realm
of the spirit it is no doubt true
that all men are brothers and
that nothing human can be alien
of winning control of congress in
1960 will be improved.
Hence the political tussle over
who is responsible for spending
too much.
LET'S take a look at fhe facts.
The President PROPOSES
the amount to be spent that is
to say, the budget.
The congress APPROPRIATES
THE MONEY.
IN OTHER words
If the congress thinks the
President is being recklessly ex
travagant in his spending pro
posals, it can refuse to appropri
ate as much money as he asks.
That is the long and the short
of it.
He Isn't For Nasser
To the Editor: It's OK by me
for a Medford resident to be
proud of a letter from would-be
dictator Nasser, who seems will
ing to bring his people to woe
and want if the builders of the
big ditch at Suez (that brought
wealth to his poverty stricken
land) are made to suffer more.
Well, this writer is' equally
proud of a letter from Queen
Elizabeth of England expressing
appreciation for the Mail Trib
une news clipping and a letter
of good-will for her -country's
respect of treaties instead of a
Hitlerian "scrap of paper," and
direct action instead of the im
potent note of protest, in protec
tion of Britain-France rights in
the canal and rights of all na
tions to use it, endorsed as the
invasion was by old Winston
Churchill whose gutty courage
helped to save us from the Hit
ler-Nazi yoke. Such loyalty we
must not forget.
The tragedy and mistake is
in our siding with the enemy,
giving that despot the go-ahead
tn write the threatening note, ob
viously a bluff, and to strength
en the English opposition, bring
ing dismal failure to the plan
for someone to head off Egypt
i hpln in fair handling of the
canal. Now the Eisenhower doc
trine threatens to do what we
helped stop Britain-France from
doing.
Never has it been my habit
to be a nodding yes-man when
Nasser or anv other Red deieno-
er sends an agent here as was
done recently to drive still deep
pr the wedee between us and
Britain and France, the agent
also advising us to take an iso
lationist neutrality, that hatred
of Russia by mid-east nations
would keep them free, yes, like
th asp-old hatred of Poland,
Hungary and others kept them
"free." But the Egyptian did
want us to keep the dollars go
ing, especially to Egypt which,
he complained, hadn't had her
share.
It took close attention to fol
low the speaker's clipped Oxford-like
accent, .but his critic
ism of our armed strength was
plain, reminded by me in my
one chance to speak that it was
the only language Russia re
spected and that the millions
spent under Marshall and give
away plans to help others, had
raised our taxes to limits hard
to reach. And our reward?
Mostly hatred, including Egypt.
F. J. Clifford,
1211 West Main,
Medford, Ore.
civir.c BEBELS
Algiers (U.R) French troops
moved into the Algeria-Morocco
I border area west of Oran Satur
! day to search for a savage rebel
, band which marched 19 men to a
! cemetery, shot them, cut their
i thrnats and then draned their
bleeding bodies over the tomb
stones.
Tomorrow
Llppmann
to a good man. But in the realm
where governments operate, it is
always a question of practical
policy as to where, as to how
dppnlv in what measure and in
what degree, one government
can and should involve liseii
with the destiny of other men.
Is it not an inflation of the
moral currency for the head of
a government, charged with the
conduct of practical affairs, to
make it appear that .the alter
native to a narrow isolationism
is universal involvement?
o
THE absence of practical policy
for the real world makes it
difficult to be sure one has un
derstood the central argument
of the address. The world, he
said in the earlier part of the
address, is divided by the devis
ive force of international Com
munism and of the power it
controls. The Communist orbit
is, however, shaken by the re
bellion of people who, like the
Hungarians, wish to be free. Our
purpose, the President went on
to say, is to build a peace with
justice where moral law pre
vails. Presumably, the realiza
tion of this ideal depends upon
the ability of the peoples of the
Soviet orbit, including the peo
ples of Russia itself, to over
throw the divisive force of inter
national Communism.
The question which puzzles
me is what is to be our own pol
icy in the period, which may be
quite prolonged, until these
hopes of an internal revolution
are realized. The address throws
no light on that question. Yet
this is the paramount question
with which we shall be living for
an indefinite time to come. It is
not a policy to sit waiting and
hoping for a revolution inside
the Soviet orbit which will re
move the problems that interna
tional Communism presents. The
President does not mean to chal
lenge the Soviet orbit which will
remove the problems that inter
national Communism presents.
The President does not mean to
challenge the Soviet orbit with
arms. He cannot, surely, expect J
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
While the United States
is talking about curbing the
filibusters of politicians, the
Medford Kiwanis club has
done something about it.
Members of the city council
were guests at the club's noon
luncheon last week. All were
properly introduced (and the
mayor was made an honorary
member) but none of them
were permitted to talk.
A young lady motorist was
driving down the highway the
other day when, to her horror,
she-saw a truck pulled over to
the side of the road and a man
lying on the ground nearby. "A
terrible accident, she thought.
and she pulled off the road to
see if she could help.
Well, the truck was just out
of, gas, and the man on the
ground was just trying to make
a- mechanical adjustment. She
offered to drive for gas, but
found when she returned to her
own car, it was too far over on
the shoulder, and was stuck in
the sand.
So, she and the truck driver
chatted for about an hour, until
someone else brought gas for
the truck, the truck pulled her
car from the sand, and everyone
drove off.
The home economics class
of a Medford school was hav
ing a demonstration night not
long ago, and mothers were
invited io come and sample
the cooking done by their
daughters. One mother, who
was on a special diet recom
mended by her doctor,
brought a friend along to
sample her daughter's cooking
for her.
A deputy sheriff who recent
ly drove to Pasadena, Calif., to
pick up a prisoner, started to tell
about the trip this way:
"We left Pasadena in beauti
ful sunshine, which followed us
all the way to the Siskiyous.'
Then we hit snow. The car skid--ded
sideways, and went over a
20-foot bank. I managed to get
out of the wreckage and free the
prisoner, a burly man of some
280 pounds. I lifted him to my
back and carried him up the
bank in heroic fashion . .. "
At this point he was interrupt
ed by loud and disrespectful
noises from his fellow deputies,
who proceeded to give him the
tiUe of "Mr. Liar of 1957."
Our favorite school paper,
the Lincoln Legend, arrived
last week, and on reading it
we learned that the most not
able thing about George Wash
ington was his memory. They
built a monument to it.
The thing we like best about
the Legend (aside from its
jokes) is the direct, forthright
job of reporting which its staff
does. Witness this story from the
pen of Cheryl Champion:
"We had three visitors in our
school last week. They were
girls from Medford High school
who might decide to become
teachers. They came to Lincoln
school to observe some classes
. . . We hope they decide to be
teachers. We liked them."
Two Groups Ask
Wage increases
Portland (U.R) The State
Public Welfare Commission was
faced Saturday with request
from two groups for more
money.
TVi Drpffnn Funeral Directors
association asked for fees of $165
fnr Kprvices now nrovided for
$75 or $80. The services do not
include the casket and cemetery
plot or crematorium expenses.
Operators of licensed nursing
nnmps had asked for a $65
monthly increase in pay for wel
fare, recipients at a previous
meeting. They asked the welfare
department to back them in re
quests they will make to me
Legislature.
n Hpfpat it with DroDaganda.
And in the address there is no
suggestion' that he is thinking of
negotiating with it.
MY OWN view is that the world
has become divided, and that
there is no prospect within any
foreseeable future that it can be
united, as the President hopes,
in one world which recognizes
the same moral laws. We are in
a period resembling the centuries
in which Christendom and a mil
itant Islam were in conflict, and
there is no more prospect of a
universally accepted moral order
now than there was then. It may
be misleading for the people, and
distracting for the makers of
foreign policy, to sponsor the
idea that a universal moral order
is an attainable goal of American
foreign policy.
Our true goal, it seems to me,
is to sustain our own moral order
among the peoples who in fact
subscribe to the same order, and
beyond that, to aim not at a
universal agreement but at ac
comodation among deep differ
ences and, as against the hot
stew of the ideologies, to evoke
the cooling spirit of live and let
live.
(C) 1957 New York Herald
' Tribune Inc.